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Just had a thought, my grandad died a few days ago, the third of my grandparents to die in a year, I've been trying to memorise what I knew about them. I had a little musing about fashion of all things.
If the only way we know what people wore through-out time, is through mediums of paintings, written word (rewritten down) and in the history books (again, that are always being revised). We then can’t trust anything other than our own experiences of what we know. The only exception to these are photographs, which I would trust quite well, possibly excluding some forms of digital photograph such as magazine and pop culture photography.
As history has moved on, we are more aware of the later stages, because we have existed close to them and anything they have left behind is more available to us. This causes an expansion of the genres of our trends, as we generalise and merge a lot of what we think we know what happened to make it more convenient for our memories.
So through my own experiences and observations I know that many people make and effort to make an effort when you dress up for an occasion, and everyone is second nature to what dressing up is for our generation and peers, even if you aren’t one to dress up yourself.
For my parent’s generation, it is not so second nature. I know what it is they do, but I would struggle to adapt to their way of dressing up. For example, my dad has nice shoes, good trousers with a sturdy belt, and a pastel shirt (possibly polo neck for winter. Strangely enough that is what my Grandfather used to dress in casually around the house, maybe exchanging slippers for the shoes when indoors. I’ve seen pictures of the generation after his, and they are those very stylishly staged family pictures - quite strong evidence for being a dressing up occasion for him.
In the future, for the children of my generation, when they dress up, perhaps it will be a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
If the only way we know what people wore through-out time, is through mediums of paintings, written word (rewritten down) and in the history books (again, that are always being revised). We then can’t trust anything other than our own experiences of what we know. The only exception to these are photographs, which I would trust quite well, possibly excluding some forms of digital photograph such as magazine and pop culture photography.
As history has moved on, we are more aware of the later stages, because we have existed close to them and anything they have left behind is more available to us. This causes an expansion of the genres of our trends, as we generalise and merge a lot of what we think we know what happened to make it more convenient for our memories.
So through my own experiences and observations I know that many people make and effort to make an effort when you dress up for an occasion, and everyone is second nature to what dressing up is for our generation and peers, even if you aren’t one to dress up yourself.
For my parent’s generation, it is not so second nature. I know what it is they do, but I would struggle to adapt to their way of dressing up. For example, my dad has nice shoes, good trousers with a sturdy belt, and a pastel shirt (possibly polo neck for winter. Strangely enough that is what my Grandfather used to dress in casually around the house, maybe exchanging slippers for the shoes when indoors. I’ve seen pictures of the generation after his, and they are those very stylishly staged family pictures - quite strong evidence for being a dressing up occasion for him.
In the future, for the children of my generation, when they dress up, perhaps it will be a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.